Vending machine



I. C. HONEGGER VENDING momma Dec. 1, 1925- mFiled June 1, 1923 3Sheets-Sheet 1 Dec. 1, 19251 c. HONEGGER VENDING MACHINE I. C. HONEGGERDec. 1, 1925- VENDING MACHINE Patented Dec. 1, 19. 15

siren stares IRVING G. HONEGGER, OF SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS.

VENDING I Application filed June 1,

old 20/162 71 it may concern.

Be it known that I, liwi'no C. Hoivnoena, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at San Antonio, in the county of BeXar and State ofTexas, have invented a new and useful Vending Machine, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to vending machines and more particularly tocheck controlled means for releasing the articles of merchandise to bevended, one of the objects being to provide simple and etiieientmechanism of this cha acter that can be adjusted readily for actuationby a check or coin of predetermined weight and value.

Another object is to provide a dispensing mechanism so constructed thata coin or check of light weight can be utilized as a means fordelivering a relatively heavy article of merchandise from the machine.-

lVith the foregoing and other objects in view which will appear as thedescription proceeds, the invention resides in the combination andarrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafterdescribed and claimed, it being understood that changes in the preciseembodiment of the in vention herein disclosed may be made within thescope of what is claimed without departing from the spirit of theinvention.

In the accompanying drawings the preferred form of the invention hasbeen shown.

In said drawings Figure 1 is a vertical section taken through one sideportion of the machine from front to back thereof on line 1--1 Fig. 2.

Fig. 2 is a vertical transverse section through the machine said sectionbeing taken on the line 22 Fig. 3.

Fig. 3 is a section on line 33 Fig. 2.

Fig. 4; is an enlarged section through the dispensing cylinder andadjacent parts, said cylinder being shown by dotted and full lines intwo of its three positions.

Fig. 5 is a front elevation of the dispensing cylinder parts beingbroken away.

Fig. 6 is a front elevation of the coin actuated balance lever andadjacent parts.

Referring to the figures by characters of reference 1 designates acasing of any suit able proportions provided, near one side, with apartition 2 extending from front to rear and top to bottom, thispartition being formed with a door 3 which, when opened gives access tothe magazine compartment 4 formed in the housing or casing 1. AnotherMACHINE.

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door 5 is provided in one side wall of the housing or casing and givesaccess to the compartment 6 in which coin operated mechanism is located.

A sinuous conduit or container 7 is provided within the compartment 4:and extends from the top of the housing or casing 1 down to a deliveryapron 8 located within the lower portion of the housing or casing. Thisconduit or container extends throughout the width of the compartment 1and is closed at one side by the door 8 while the other side is closedat all times by one side wall of the housing or casing. A fillingopening 9 is provided in the top of the housmg or casing 1 andcommunicates with the upper end of the conduit or container? Thisopening is extended throughout the width of the conduit or container andhas a closure 10 that can be locked in shut position by any suitablemeans provided for that purpose. By raising the closure, as shown bydotted lines in Fig. 3, articles of merchandise can be placed readily inthe conduit or container 7.

A transverse angular partition 11 is pro vided under the conduit orcontainer, the angle portion 12 of this partition being spaced asufiicient distance from the apron 8 to provide an outlet slot 13through which articles of merchandise can gravitate.

Mounted for rotation below the apron 8 and the slot 13 is a deliveringcylinder 1 1 having trunnions 15 and 16 journaled respectively in oneside wall of the housing or casing 1 and in the partition 2. Thiscylinder is provided in its periphery with a longitudinal channel 17 soproportioned as to receive and hold a single article of merchandise atone time. This channel is normally positioned directly under the slot 13as shown in Fig. 3 and is held in such position by a balance lever 18fixedly connected to trunnion 16. One end of this lever carries a cointray 19 while the other end is adjustably engaged by a weight 20.

.Mounted within the compartment 6 is a coin chute 21 extendingdownwardly from a coin receiving slot 22 formed in the front of thehousing or casing 1, the upper portion of the chute being preferablycurved or crooked as shown at 23 so that a coin can be pushed backwardlythrough the slot 22 and will then gravitate along curved lines to thelower straight portion of the chute. The lower outlet end of the chuteoverhangs the t in it) and that portion oi the compartment G-helow thetray constitutes a com oontainer or receiver.

Extending downwardly and fo r vardly from the cylinder 14. is adeflecting plate 24: leading to an outlet opening 25 in the bottomportion of the front wall of casing or housing 1, there being areceiving tray in front of this slot into which articles of merchandisewill be delivered by the machine. y

-The apparatus herein described can be used for vending differenthindsof merchandise, such as pencils, sticks oit candy and the like, the saidarticles being placed in the apparatus through the top opening 9 so asto partly or entirely till the .conduit or container 7; Obviously thelowermost article willgravitate through slot 13 into channel l?. Theweight 20 is so proportioned and adjusted that when one ofthearticlesoimerchandise is seated iii-channel 17 the said weight willbe slightly overbalanced so as to allow cylinder 14 to rotate a shortdistance suihcient to'remove the channel 1? from under the slot 13without, hmvever, allowing the article of merchandise to drop out of thechannel. This intermediate position of the .channelhasbeen indicatedbydotted lines at 27 in Fig. 4. lVith the parts thus located the articlesof n'ierchandise remaining in the conduit or container are held againstfurther downward movement until cylinder 1% has been returned to itsinitial position. lVith the parts set as described, a coin of propervalue, when inserted through the slot 22, will gravitate onto the tray19 and cause cylinder l i to further rotate until channel 17 is broughtto the position indicated by full lines in Fig. l. The article ofmerchandise in said channel will thus be free to drop onto thedeflecting plate 24-. and gravitate to the tray 26.

, As soon as the coin passes the tray it will drop into the lowerportion of: compartment 6 and the weight 20 will return to tray andthecylinder to their normal. positions. lVhen the channel 17 arrivesunder the slot 1} another article of merchandise will gravitate into thechannel, cylinder lat will shift to its intern'iediate position, and theparts will be thus reset ready for another coin to be deposited.

An important feature of this invention is the fact that, because of thesinuous form oi the conduit or container 7 the articles of merchandisewill be momentarily checked in their downward movement each time one of:the articles 18 deposited in the channel 17, this checking action beingsulliment to relieve the cylinder 1-1 of excessive pressure when itstarts to move under the weight of .the article deposited in its channel17. By

referring particularly to Fig. it will be seen that articles ofmerchandise traveling along the downwardly and rearwardly inclinedportions of the conduit or container 7 will rotate as indicated by thearrows at- A. lVhen, however, these articles travel along the downwardlyand forwardly inclined portions of the conduit or container, they willrotate in the opposite direction as indicated by the arrows B. Thus eachtime an article of merchandise, indicated generally at 0 moves from oneincline to another its direction of rotation will be abruptly reversedand this action, supplementing the frictional con-tact set up betweenthe rotating contacting articles, will be sufficient to produce thedesired slight retardation of the merchandise necessary to allow freerotation of the cylinder 14 under the weight of, the' article depositedthereon.

In constructing this machine it is essential that-- the rear wall of thechannel l7 bepositioned vertically above the axis of rotation of thecylinder when said cylinder is in normal position. Thus any merchandise,however light, thati nay be discharged intothe channel will be supportedin advance of the center of gravity and, therefore, tend to rotate thecylinder to move the channel from under the outlet opening or slot 13.

lVhat is claimed is In a vending machine 'the combination with a freelyrotatable cylinder having a longitudinal article receiving recess in'itsperiphery, and a container closed at its lower end by the cylinder forfeeding articles Successively to the recess, of acounterbalanced membermovable with the cylinder and having a tray at one end and an adjustableweight at its other end, saidcylinder being rotatable to an intermediateposition against the action of the weight when subjected to the weighto'tan article in the recess, and means for directing an object bygravity against the tray to rotate the cylinder past its intermediateposition and release the article carried by the cylinder.

In testimony that I claimthe foregoing as my own, I have hereto aiiixedmy signature ravine c. Honnoonn.

